Outlines of History: Illustrated by Numerous Geographical and Historical Notes and Maps : Embracing : Part I. Ancient History, Part II. Modern HistoryIvison & Phinney, 1858 - 600 páginas |
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... length , and 148 feet in height , with a door - way in the middle 64 feet high . One of the halls in this vast building covers an area of more than an acre and a quarter ; and its roof , consisting of enormous slabs of stone , has been ...
... length , and 148 feet in height , with a door - way in the middle 64 feet high . One of the halls in this vast building covers an area of more than an acre and a quarter ; and its roof , consisting of enormous slabs of stone , has been ...
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... length by 200 in width . " On each side of the doorway is a colossal statue , measuring 44 feet from the ground . Fronting these statues were two obelisks , each formed of a single block of red granite , 80 feet in height , and ...
... length by 200 in width . " On each side of the doorway is a colossal statue , measuring 44 feet from the ground . Fronting these statues were two obelisks , each formed of a single block of red granite , 80 feet in height , and ...
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... length . According to this computation the city embraced an area of 225 square miles . But Diodorus reduces the supposed area to 72 square miles ; -equal , however , to three and a half times the area of London , with all its suburbs ...
... length . According to this computation the city embraced an area of 225 square miles . But Diodorus reduces the supposed area to 72 square miles ; -equal , however , to three and a half times the area of London , with all its suburbs ...
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... length of the northern portion , which is from north - west to south - east , is about two hundred miles , with an average width of fifty miles . The greatest length of the Moréa , which is from north to south , is about one hundred and ...
... length of the northern portion , which is from north - west to south - east , is about two hundred miles , with an average width of fifty miles . The greatest length of the Moréa , which is from north to south , is about one hundred and ...
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... length , the Peneus , the principal river of Thes ' saly , finds its way to the sea ; and an ancient legend asserts that the waters of the Peneus and its tributaries covered the whole basin of Thes ' saly , until the arm of Her ' cules ...
... length , the Peneus , the principal river of Thes ' saly , finds its way to the sea ; and an ancient legend asserts that the waters of the Peneus and its tributaries covered the whole basin of Thes ' saly , until the arm of Her ' cules ...
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Página 330 - Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders, This many summers in a sea of glory ; But far beyond my depth : my high-blown pride At length broke under me ; and now has left me, Weary, and old with service, to the mercy Of a rude stream, that must forever hide me. Vain pomp, and glory of this world, I hate ye ; I feel my heart new opened : O, how wretched Is that poor man, that hangs on princes...
Página 40 - And Israel served the LORD all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders that overlived Joshua, and which had known all the works of the LORD, that he had done for Israel.
Página 61 - Now there was long war between the house of Saul and the house of David: but David waxed stronger and stronger, and the house of Saul waxed weaker and weaker.
Página 348 - ... in the seventieth year of her age, and the forty-fifth of her reign.
Página 330 - ... had I but served God as diligently as I have served the king, he would not have given me over in my gray hairs.
Página 12 - ... to give light upon the earth, and to rule over the day, and over the night, to be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and for years.
Página 277 - To speak the truth, to succor the helpless and oppressed, and never to turn back from an enemy," was the first vow of the aspirant to the honors of chivalry.
Página 250 - If these writings of the Greeks agree with the book of God, they are useless, and need not be preserved ; if they disagree, they are pernicious, and ought to be destroyed.
Página 39 - Egypt, that led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought, and of the shadow of death, through a land that no man passed through, and where no man dwelt...
Página 64 - Then the angel of the Lord went forth, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.